NDLI: Conceptual Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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Conceptual Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Oldager, Steen Nikolaj
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	One of the main areas in knowledge representation and logic-based artificial intelligence concerns logical formalisms that can be used for representing and reasoning with concepts. For almost 30 years, since research in this area began, the issue of intensionality has had a special status in that it has been considered to play an important role, yet it has not been precisely established what it means for a logical formalism to be intensional. This thesis attempts to set matters straight. Based on studies of the main contributions to the issue of intensionality from philosophy of language, in particular the works of Gottlob Frege and Rudolf Carnap, we start by defining when a logical formalism is intensional. We then examine whether the current formalizations of concepts are intensional. The result is negative in the sense that none of the prevalent formalizations are intensional. This motivates the development of intensional logics for concepts. Our main contribution is the presentation of such an intensional concept logic. The intensional concept logic is a development of the well-known description logic ALC. More precisely, the logic is based, not only on a single, but on two equivalence relations. This allows us to express that concepts are co-extensional as well as to express that concepts are co-intensional. The intensional semantics of the logic is a novel algebraic semantics which is defined through abstraction of the extensional semantics of ALC. It is shown that this approach generalizes to other logics than description logics.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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